By James Baxter, NMA President This past Tuesday the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, IIHS, carpet bombed the media world with a press release claiming red light cameras saved 154 lives in 14 cities from 2004 through 2008. Saying IIHS pulled this number out of thin blue air would be a tremendous compliment. There is […]
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Is It A Good Idea To Mandate Back Up Cameras?
By James Baxter, NMA President The Obama administration has decided that all passenger cars and busses, manufactured after 2014, must be equipped with back-up/rear-view cameras. They claim such cameras could halve fatalities and injuries caused in backing up accidents. To meet the requirements of the proposed rule, ten percent of new vehicles must comply by […]
Mall Misery
By James Baxter, NMA President This ever happen to you? You charge off to the Mall for some painful last minute holiday shopping. You enter on one end and flow with the hoards of shoppers; first down one side and then up the other side, down some cross isles and occasionally plunge into store thinking […]
High Speed Rail, Thinking Large
By James Baxter, NMA President In a presentation this past summer, regarding a local “high speed rail” project, Randal O’Toole, an associate of the Heritage Foundation, described the Federal Government’s fascination with rail passenger service, as “promoting a 19th century solution to a 21st century problem.” (I may be somewhat paraphrasing his statement.) I can’t […]
How To Quickly Become A More Informed Voter
By James Baxter, NMA President Between local, state, and U.S. elections this fall most of us will be confronted with making a dozen or more choices from two or three times that many candidates. Some vote for a straight party ticket and let it go at that. But most of us like to pick and […]
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